Politics and Gender

Aims & Scope

Politics & Gender is an agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on gender and politics and on women and politics.

It aims to represent the full range of questions, issues, and approaches on gender and women across the major subfields of political science, including comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and U.S. politics.

The Editor welcomes studies that address fundamental questions in politics and political science from the perspective of gender difference, as well as those that interrogate and challenge standard analytical categories and conventional methodologies.Members of the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association receive the journal as a benefit of membership.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.5
2024	3.10

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.405

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	59

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2683

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	540

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Intersectionality as a Normative and Empirical Paradigm

  Citation: 380

  Authors: Ange-Marie

• Gender Quotas and Women's Substantive Representation: Lessons from Argentina

  Citation: 310

  Authors: Susan, Jennifer M.

• When Gender and Party Collide: Stereotyping in Candidate Trait Attribution

  Citation: 206

  Authors: Danny

• Gendered Recruitment without Trying: How Local Party Recruiters Affect Women's Representation

  Citation: 175

  Authors: Melody

• Critical Mass Theory Revisited: The Behavior and Success of Token Women in State Legislatures

  Citation: 163

  Authors: Kathleen A.

• “Fairer Sex” or Purity Myth? Corruption, Gender, and Institutional Context

  Citation: 161

  Authors: Justin, Gina

• Women Have Found Respect: Gender Quotas, Symbolic Representation, and Female Empowerment in Rwanda

  Citation: 146

  Authors: Jennie E.

• The Story of the Theory of Critical Mass

  Citation: 145

  Authors: Drude

• Am I a Black Woman or a Woman Who Is Black? A Few Thoughts on the Meaning of Intersectionality

  Citation: 141

  Authors: Julia S.

• Doing Intersectionality Research: From Conceptual Issues to Practical Examples

  Citation: 136

  Authors: Evelyn M.

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